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Snap and Spotify account for 13.7% of Google Cloud: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/spotify-will-spend-nearly-450-million-on-google-cloud-over-3-years.html http

by awad 8y ago

Snap and Spotify account for 13.7% of Google Cloud: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/spotify-will-spend-nearly-450-million-on-google-cloud-over-3-years.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/spotify-will-spend-nearly-45...

zjaffee 8y ago
And when anytime both of these services go down at the same time, it's obvious who to blame (it happens way more often than you see the same on AWS).
human_error 8y ago
It only means they don't have many customers.
romed 8y ago
Snap doesn't spend it all on what you are all discussing here, though. Even though it's wrapped up in Google Cloud marketing, Snap's main use seems to be of App Engine, a product that is clearly in the lead among comparable products, as opposed to things like GCS and GCE which are clearly behind S3 and AWS, respectively. Snap also has a huge contract with AWS, for what it's worth. Other large customers like Apple also split their ticket between Amazon and Google.
- wikibob 8y ago
  In what specific way is GCE behind EC2? I would argue on many points GCE is clearly significantly superior to EC2. The Google billing model is far better, they bill on straight CPU and Memory, which you can combine in any desired ratio. Amazon has well over 100 different instance types. Google gives you an automatic sustained usage discount. Amazon requires you to commit to reserved instances up front for 1 year minimum, and those have to be specific instance types, so as your workloads change you can't reallocate capacity. GCE has workload live-migration. If the underlying hardware that your VM is hosted on begins to fail, they will migrate you to new hardware in REAL TIME without any downtime other than a sub-second pause in processing. Amazon will notify you that your hardware is failing and give you a deadline usually a week or so out to reboot your VM, if you don't they just terminate it. I could continue for several more points if interested.
  - romed 8y ago
    Market share.

by awad 8y ago

zjaffee 8y ago

And when anytime both of these services go down at the same time, it's obvious who to blame (it happens way more often than you see the same on AWS).

human_error 8y ago

It only means they don't have many customers.

romed 8y ago

Snap doesn't spend it all on what you are all discussing here, though. Even though it's wrapped up in Google Cloud marketing, Snap's main use seems to be of App Engine, a product that is clearly in the lead among comparable products, as opposed to things like GCS and GCE which are clearly behind S3 and AWS, respectively. Snap also has a huge contract with AWS, for what it's worth. Other large customers like Apple also split their ticket between Amazon and Google.

wikibob 8y ago
In what specific way is GCE behind EC2? I would argue on many points GCE is clearly significantly superior to EC2. The Google billing model is far better, they bill on straight CPU and Memory, which you can combine in any desired ratio. Amazon has well over 100 different instance types. Google gives you an automatic sustained usage discount. Amazon requires you to commit to reserved instances up front for 1 year minimum, and those have to be specific instance types, so as your workloads change you can't reallocate capacity. GCE has workload live-migration. If the underlying hardware that your VM is hosted on begins to fail, they will migrate you to new hardware in REAL TIME without any downtime other than a sub-second pause in processing. Amazon will notify you that your hardware is failing and give you a deadline usually a week or so out to reboot your VM, if you don't they just terminate it. I could continue for several more points if interested.
- romed 8y ago
  Market share.